Ji Xiu

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ji Xiu (季修)
Alias(es)	Wang Quan Wumu; Proprietor Ji; Chief Head Ji; Dao Child
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Formerly the Lin Residence and Lu Estate; Wind and Cloud Association; Heavenly Saber True Sect; Dragon Elephant True Sect
Occupation/Role	Former groom; Saber-Wearing Retainer; Medicine Hall Master; Proprietor of the Ji Residence; Chief Head of the Eighteen Interlocking Mountain Towns; Saber Dao True Disciple
Status	Alive; present through the events of the grand finale 314
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Horsemanship: Beginner	2	Acquired after wearing a Dao Talisman; used to tame Thousand Mile Snow and earn promotion to groom.
Horsemanship: Great Accomplishment	4	Gained the Waist and Horse as One trait after repeatedly managing the Lin Residence stables.
Horsemanship: Mastered; Heavenly River Saber Technique initiated	8	Completed horsemanship and inherited the experience of another saber wielder through pre-borrowing.
Force	17	Returned to the Lin Residence able to use Force, defeating its guards and steward.
Toughening Tendons: Great Completion	21	Reached the completion of tendon tempering before accepting Lu Yu's invitation to the Lu Estate.
Heavenly River Saber Technique: Great Accomplishment	23	Broke free of his slave status and gained the Ten Steps, One Kill saber trait.
Iron Bone; Knife Mountain Fire Sea Stance initiated	63	Reached Iron Bone and learned Duan Chenzhou's Secret Martial Path saber art with exceptional speed.
Knife Mountain Stance: Minor Accomplishment	66	Defeated Yang Yan and Tempering Bones opponents while protecting Zhang Qing.
Knife Mountain Fire Sea Stance: Perfected	76	Comprehended the Dancing Shadows Shattering Prison Blade Intent and defeated peak Tempering Bones Xu Qiong.
Primordial Dao Talisman upgraded; Spirit Sense	77	Integrated Searching Mountains and Expelling Seas, gaining innate Spirit Sense.
Tempering Bones Realm: Force Entering Marrow	87	Recorded as having reached the marrow stage; possessed multiple martial traits and the Mortal Transformation Leaping Dragon Gate.
True Jiao Transformation; Gold Muscle and Gold Bone	99	Completed the transformation, making him difficult to harm with ordinary weapons.
Second Great Limit: Glazed Glass Bones and Dragonkin Treasure Bone	108	Broke the Second Limit of the fleshly body, greatly strengthening his physique.
Qi Ingestion and Grain Avoidance	117	Refined divine thoughts, swallowed the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General, and entered the Dao Arts stage of Qi Ingestion.
Qi Ingestion and Grain Avoidance: Second Realm	120	Refined his Divine Soul into a true Qi Refiner and gained the Myriad Spirits Invulnerable characteristic.
Refining Skin Realm: Outer Force	136	Achieved Outer Force before departing for Jiangyin Prefecture.
Divine Talisman Fire; Great Five Decays Sky Saber—First Decay	152	Ordained the fire-controlling Dao Law and completed Tribulation Fire Burning Clothes after prolonged seclusion.
Immortal Garment	159	Cultivated the Rainbow Skirt Scroll and manifested a Dao Grade Treasure Garment.
High Daoist Achievement: Great Dao Purple Palace	183	Received the first half of the Immortals Chapter from Jiang Li and opened the Purple Mansion.
Three Great Thresholds: Purple Ribbon Immortal Garment	186	Completed the Three Great Thresholds and awakened Four Seasons Impermanence, which weakens Secret Martial Arts and techniques.
Qi Sea: Jiazi Demon Subduing; Qi Refining Great Master	205	Formed a Qi Sea Phenomenon while fighting amid the Central Yellow Heaven conflict.
First Five Viscera Secret Treasure: Heart Treasure	218	Absorbed Thousand-Peak Absolute Blade Qi to refine the Heart Treasure.
Four Treasures opened; Human Immortal Primal Embryo advanced	238	Received a spiritual-essence baptism from the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple's seven ancestor statues.
Purple Palace Daoist Merit: Ascension	239	Advanced Daoist Merit to Ascension after refining the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord.
Four Limits of the Human Immortal Martial Path	253	Obtained the Nine Orifice Golden Core and Wang Quan Saber, crossing four Dao Merit thresholds.
Flawless Realm; Sect Master level	264	Completed a physical metamorphosis into the Flawless Realm and prepared to contend with Northern Cang's leading prodigies.
Wind Thunder Great Tribulation	284	Evolved his Thunder Saber during his duel with Jiang Nanke.
Seven Metamorphoses	311	Reached a body-refinement level described as physical perfection.

History

Ji Xiu grew up in poverty with his younger sister, Ji Wei. At roughly sixteen or seventeen, he was sallow and underfed, struggling to find food and medicine for her illness 1. To survive, he sold himself to the Lin Residence for three taels of silver and entered its stables as a servant 89.

A Dao Talisman allowed him to tame the wild horse Thousand Mile Snow, earning Lin Ruyue's favor and a promotion to groom 2. He rapidly developed horsemanship and then pursued martial arts, refusing to accept permanent subservience. After becoming a Martial Warrior, he secured a household-registration plate and escaped the restrictions of slave status 23.

Lu Yu later recruited him to the Lu Estate, where Lu Chengfeng recognized his saber talent and promoted him to Saber-Wearing Retainer. The position granted a monthly salary, weapons, travel privileges, and medicinal resources for cultivation 27. His pill-refining talent and Huang Xuan's support subsequently led to his appointment as Medicine Hall Master of the Wind and Cloud Association 36 42.

As Anning County's Chief Head and Proprietor, Ji Xiu took control of the Eighteen Interlocking Mountain Towns and its mountain-road trade 89 90. He converted gambling-den debtors into paid laborers rather than demanding ruinous repayment, while continuing to personally refine pills for Huang Xuan despite no longer needing to honor their original agreement 96.

After entering Jiangyin Prefecture, Ji Xiu became entangled in struggles involving the Northern Cang Marquis Residence, the Black Market, major trades, sects, and the Heretical Path. He entered the Prefecture Academy, received first-class evaluations on both the Martial and Divine Steles, and became a leading candidate for a Prefect Official title 166.

Ji Xiu's Dao Arts developed alongside his martial cultivation. Jiang Li revealed herself as the ninth Great Xuan Emperor and Human King, then entrusted him with the Immortals Chapter, enabling him to open the Great Dao Purple Palace 183. He later joined the Saber Dao lineage, reclaimed the identity and memories of Wang Quan Wumu through the Yellow Millet Dream, and was recorded as a Saber Dao True Disciple 217 238.

Appearance

Ji Xiu initially appeared sickly, sallow, and emaciated from poverty 1 14. Martial cultivation transformed him into a striking young man with a composed but distant bearing 20 28.

• Clear black-and-white eyes; later associated with the manifestation of Double Pupils 1 228.
• Sharp eyebrows and a blade-like profile 20.
• Rosy complexion and long hanging hair after his early transformations 20.
• Cool, aloof expression that discourages casual familiarity 20 28.
• Commonly carries a narrow saber at his waist, giving the impression of a concealed, dangerous edge 60.

Personality

Ji Xiu is intensely self-reliant. His experience as a groom shaped his refusal to be controlled by wealth, status, or powerful patrons; he rejected the Central Yellow Sect's offer of advancement because worship-based power contradicted his goal of self-realization 93. He also rejects opportunities that would require becoming a dependent retainer rather than walking his own path 160.

He is ambitious but not careless. Even after becoming a Hall Master, he continued training because he understood that status without strength was insecure 43. He is capable of using influence, bargains, and intimidation against entrenched opponents, as shown in his dealings with Fishing Trade head Chen Jing 164.

His kindness is practical rather than naïve. Ji Xiu protects people facing exploitation, helps Zhang Qing and Zheng Jun obtain opportunities, honors promises even at personal cost, and repays those who helped him 66 96 107. He values loyalty enough to support Jiang Li despite the scale of the enemies surrounding her 183 236.

Abilities & Skills

Primordial Dao Talisman

Ji Xiu's central reliance is the Primordial Dao Talisman, an ordination-based treasure that grants skills, traits, and pre-borrowed cultivation progress.

• Granted Beginner Horsemanship when first worn 2.
• Allows him to pre-borrow and inherit progress from skills, martial arts, and transformations 8 83.
• Upgraded after Zhang Qing gave him a jade talisman, enabling the inheritance of Searching Mountains and Expelling Seas 76.
• Supports the Yellow Millet Dream, through which he accesses the lives and inheritances of Jiang Jing and Wang Quan Wumu 253.
• Continues to refine and reveal higher-order traits as his cultivation rises 285 300.

Saber Arts

Ji Xiu's primary combat path is the saber. His early Heavenly River Saber Technique developed into a broad arsenal of Secret Martial Arts and peerless techniques.

• Heavenly River Saber Technique — his foundational saber inheritance; its Great Accomplishment granted Ten Steps, One Kill 23.
• Knife Mountain Fire Sea Stance — a Secret Martial Path art suited to nourishing stance and concealing strength; Ji Xiu perfected it and developed the Dancing Shadows Shattering Prison Blade Intent 63 76.
• Great Five Decays Sky Saber — learned its First Decay, Tribulation Fire Burning Clothes, then continued building its higher stages 152 244.
• Three Tribulations of Reincarnation — a Martial Saint peerless art obtained through the Wang Quan Saber; its first move is the Thunder Hub Tribulation Saber 264 281.
• Wind Thunder Great Tribulation — an evolved Thunder Saber form developed during his victory over Jiang Nanke 284.

Human Immortal Martial Path

Ji Xiu cultivates his body through the Human Immortal Martial Path, repeatedly breaking physical limits.

• Achieved True Jiao Transformation, Gold Muscle, Gold Bone, Glazed Glass Bones, and Dragonkin Treasure Bone 99 108.
• Cultivated the Purple Ribbon Immortal Garment and Four Seasons Impermanence, reducing the effectiveness of hostile Secret Martial Arts and techniques 186.
• Opened the Five Viscera Secret Treasures, beginning with the Heart Treasure and later reaching four opened treasures 218 238.
• Possesses the Human Immortal Primal Embryo and was identified as having an Innate Dao Body 218.
• Reached the Four Limits and later the Flawless Realm through repeated physical metamorphoses 253 264.

Dao Arts and Divine Soul

Ji Xiu cultivates body and soul simultaneously, following the Human Immortal interpretation of Dao Arts.

• Qi Ingestion and Grain Avoidance — entered Dao Arts by refining divine thoughts and consuming the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General 117.
• Great Dao Purple Palace — opened after receiving the first half of Jiang Li's Immortals Chapter 183.
• Divine Talisman Fire — a Dao Law that lets him ignite targets within his sight through Divine Soul activation 152.
• Myriad Spirits Invulnerable — characteristic obtained after completing the second realm of Qi Ingestion and Grain Avoidance 120.
• Daoist Merit: Ascension — achieved after refining the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord 239.

Searching Mountains and Expelling Seas

A divine ability inherited through the upgraded Primordial Dao Talisman.

• Grants Spirit Sense and Aura Sight, allowing him to perceive danger and opportunities before they arrive 77 90.
• Enables unusually safe navigation through the Five Hundred Li Mountain Road and the Earth Dragon Cave region 77 90.
• Increased in progress as he assumed authority over mountain towns and hunted demon beasts 89 90.
• At Searching Mountains Practice Completion, granted the capacity to act as lord of mountains and rivers and heightened water affinity 135.

Double Pupils

Ji Xiu possesses the Human Immortal Grand Artifact known as Double Pupils.

• Allows him to develop the Profound Sky Forbidden and related sight-based techniques 228 244.
• At greater mastery, can glimpse several breaths into the past and anticipate an opponent's movements 244.
• Its complete technique can inflict Dao wounds on an opponent's true form 235.

Alchemy, Horsemanship, and Archery

Ji Xiu retains practical skills from every stage of his rise.

• Ninth Grade Alchemy — successfully refined Leopard Fetus Pills and gained Yellow Medicine Master's recognition 36 87.
• Horsemanship — began as a stable groom, reached mastery, and gained Waist and Horse as One 4 8.
• Arrow Stance: Exhausted Crows — developed into the true arrow stance Heaven and Earth Darkened 87 90.
• Can draw a Hundred Stone bow, measured at twelve thousand jin 87.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wang Quan Saber — an ancient saber bearing the Wang Quan name; grants access to the Three Tribulations of Reincarnation and resonates with Ji Xiu's divine soul 234 264.
• Great Craftsman Saber — gifted by Wei Zhi; inscribed with “May I follow the moonlight and shine upon you” 50.
• Jade Shatterer Great Bow — a heavy bow forged for him by Cai Ling'er 89.
• Azure Blood Dragon Core Jade — pendant given by Bai Shuo as proof of their bond 134.
• Sun Moon Jade Talisman — reforged by Jiang Li from a Sun Moon Treasure Pearl; nourishes the Divine Soul and conceals its aura 111 182.
• Black Market Mask — Dragon Head mask that conceals his identity and displays an illusory map of Jiangyin Prefecture 183.
• Sixth Grade Spirit Armor — Great Master-level armor gifted through Jiang Li 182.

Relationships

• Ji Wei — younger sister. Ji Xiu's early poverty and decision to sell himself into service were driven by his need to protect and provide for her; he later supports both her martial and Dao Arts cultivation 1 50 85.
• Duan Chenzhou — first master and foundational saber mentor. Ji Xiu regards him with deep filial loyalty and entered Jiangyin Prefecture when he believed Duan had died 63 136.
• Xu Longxiang — master who gave Ji Xiu the Reborn technique and the True Martial inheritance; later protects and advocates for him 171 182.
• Wang Xuanyang — grandmaster of Ji Xiu's lineage and a key supporter of his future within the Heavenly Saber tradition 211 214.
• Jiang Li — Human King and former Great Xuan Emperor. She saved Ji Xiu from the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General, taught him Dao Arts, and later formed a blood oath of mutual life-and-death support with him 93 183 236.
• Xiao Mingli — Northern Cang Marquis Residence World Daughter. She provides Ji Xiu resources and protection; their engagement is arranged and affirmed by their elders 149 211 258.
• Bai Shuo — dragon girl of the Water Lord's Manor. She helped Ji Xiu break through bodily limits and gave him the Azure Blood Dragon Core Jade; their bond remains significant despite their separate ambitions 100 134 245.
• Huang Xuan / Yellow Medicine Master — early alchemical supporter. Ji Xiu repays him through pill refining, the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus, and major Medicine Guild benefits 36 96 107 232.
• Zhang Qing — former neighbor, disciple, and loyal subordinate. He gave Ji Xiu the jade talisman that upgraded the Primordial Dao Talisman 60 76.
• Lin Ruyue — the Lin Residence's Second Miss. Her recognition of Ji Xiu's horsemanship gave him his first opportunity as a groom; she later manages parts of his mountain-road business 2 105.
• Lu Hongyu — Lu Yu's elder sister. She aided Ji Xiu after his promotion to retainer and openly favored him within the Lu Estate 28.
• Jiang Shu — Qishan Jiang Family head tied to Wang Quan Wumu's past. She protects Ji Xiu against the Mystic Talisman Sect and has waited two centuries for Wang Quan Wumu's return 239 253.
• Wang Quan Jing — identified as Ji Xiu's father; their relationship becomes hostile when Ji Xiu changes his name and rejects a marriage arrangement 236.

Notable Quotes

“I came from the background of a groom, wading from Anning County to Jiangyin Prefecture, a journey of eight thousand li. Am I still afraid of this little bit of fanfare?”
— Ji Xiu 171

“More debts don't weigh you down, at worst I'll just owe it for now, what's there to be afraid of?”
— Ji Xiu 183